"I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women."

-- Louis XIV

#Women Quotes #Europe Quotes #Two Quotes

“Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.”
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.”
“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
“That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.”
“It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?”
“Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.”
“But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right to determine for themselves the true, the good, and the beautiful. They became, in their understanding, their own authority, and their fallen descendants ever since that time have claimed a similar autonomy from God”

Source : Robert L. Reymond (2010). “A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith: 2nd Edition - Revised and Updated”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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